Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

CARRUTHERS, RICHARD. Ensign 26 foot 19 May 1814; major 2 foot 19 Feb. 1836 to 23 July 1839 when he retired; C.B. 6 June 1840. _d._ 1 Brunswick gardens, Kensington, London 17 Feb. 1864 aged 63. CARRUTHERS, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Carruthers of Mouswald, Dumfries, farmer_). _b._ Dumfries 5 Nov. 1799; master of national school at Huntingdon; edited _Inverness Courier_, April 1828 to death, he made it the most popular paper in North of Scotland, proprietor 1831; hon. LLD. Edin. 21 April 1871; published _History of Huntingdon_ 1824; _The Highland note book or sketches and anecdotes_ 1843; _The poetical works of Alexander Pope 4 vols._ 1853; wrote with Robert Chambers most of the original matter in _Chambers’s Cyclopædia of English literature 2 vols._ 1843–4. _d._ Inverness 26 May 1878. _G.M. Nov. 1884 pp._ 448–51; _I.L.N. lxii_, 557 (1878), _portrait_. CARSON, RIGHT REV. THOMAS (_elder son of Rev. Thomas Carson 1763–1816, R. of Kilmahon, Cloyne_). _b._ Kilmahon rectory 27 Aug. 1805; ed. at Glanmire school and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; V. of Urney, co. Cavan 1838; R. of Cloon and vicar general of Kilmore 1854; dean of Kilmore 1860; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 1870 to death; consecrated at Armagh 2 Oct. 1870. _d._ Portrush, co. Antrim 7 July 1874. CARSWELL, SIR ROBERT. _b._ Paisley 3 Feb. 1793; studied at Glasgow, Paris and Lyons; M.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 1826; made a series of 2000 water-color drawings of diseased structures in Paris for University college, London 1828–31; professor of pathological anatomy at the college 1831–40; phys. to King of the Belgians at Lacken near Brussells 1840 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; author of _Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, with coloured plates_ 1837; and of 7 articles in _Cyclopædia of practical medicine 4 vols._ 1833–5. _d._ Lacken 15 June 1857. CARTE, JOHN ELLIOT. Assistant surgeon in army 31 Dec. 1841; surgeon 14 foot 26 Jany. 1858; deputy inspector general 22 June 1870 to 17 Feb. 1872 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1865. _d._ Portland place, Brighton 19 April 1876. CARTER, GEORGE. _b._ Bromfield near Ludlow, Salop 29 Nov. 1792; whip to the Warwickshire hounds 1823–5, to Mr. West’s harriers 1825–7; whip to Duke of Grafton 1827–31 and huntsman 1833–42; huntsman to Grantley Berkeley 1831–3; huntsman of the Tedworth hounds 1842–65; had few equals and no superiors whether in the kennel or in the field. _d._ Milton, Pewsey Vale, Wilts. 21 Nov. 1884. _Hound and horn or the life and recollections of George Carter the great huntsman by I. H. G._ (1885), _portrait_. CARTER, HARRY WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Carter, M.D. of Canterbury who d. 1822_). _b._ Canterbury 7 Sep. 1787; ed. at Kings sch. Canterbury and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.B. 1811, M.D. 1819; Radcliffe travelling fellow 1812; F.R.C.P. 1825; phys. at Canterbury 1825–35; author of _A short account of some of the principal hospitals of France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands with remarks on the climate and diseases of these countries_ 1821, and of some essays in _Cyclopædia of practical medicine_. _d._ Kennington hall near Ashford, Kent 16 July 1863. CARTER, HENRY LEE. Gave an entertainment called “The two lands of gold” at the Marionette theatre previously known as the Adelaide gallery, Adelaide st., Strand, London April 1853. _d._ Kensington house asylum, Kensington, London 3 Oct. 1862 aged 37. CARTER, JAMES. _b._ Colchester 5 July 1792; tailor at Colchester 1819; removed to London 1836; author of _Lectures on taste_; _A lecture on the primitive state of man_; _Memoirs of a working man 2 vols._ 1845–50. _d._ St. John’s place, Camberwell 1 June 1853. _G.M. xl_, 96 (1853). CARTER, JAMES. _b._ parish of Shoreditch, London 1798; a landscape and figure engraver; engraved many plates for the annuals especially _Jennings’s Landscape Annual_ 1830–40; engraved plates after Goodall, Nasmyth and Richard Wilson for _Art Journal_ and E. M. Ward’s pictures of ‘The South Sea Bubble’ and ‘Benjamin West’s First essay in art.’ _d._ 6 Fleur de Lis street, Norton Folgate, London 23 Aug. 1855. CARTER, SIR JAMES (_son of James Carter of Portsmouth_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; judge of supreme court of New Brunswick 1834, chief justice 20 Dec. 1850 to 1865 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 12 Oct.